''My Friend Harry'' (German: ''Mein Freund Harry'') is a 1928 German

silent film A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, w ...

directed by

Max Obal Max Obal (born Max David Gotthelf Sroke; 4 September 1881 – 18 May 1949) was a German actor, singer, screenwriter, and film director. He co-directed the 1927 swashbuckler ''Rinaldo Rinaldini (film), Rinaldo Rinaldini'' featuring Hans Albers.Grang ...

and

Rudolf Walther-Fein Rudolf Walther-Fein (20 November 1875 – 1 May 1933) was an Austrian film director and film producer, producer of the Silent era, silent and Sound film, early sound era. He directed the first full sound film to be released in Germany ''It's You I ...

and starring

Harry Liedtke Harry Liedtke (12 October 1882 – 28 April 1945) was a German film actor. Early life Liedtke was born in Königsberg, East Prussia as the seventh out of 12 children of a merchant. After his father's death in 1896, he grew up in an orphanage and ...

Maria Paudler Maria Paudler (20 June 1903 – 17 August 1990) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German actress. Selected filmography * '' Madame Wants No Children'' (1926) * '' The Young Man from the Ragtrade'' (1926) * '' The Violet Eater'' (1926) * '' One Does N ...

and

Otto Wallburg Otto Wallburg (21 February 1889 – 29 October 1944) was a German actor and Kabarett performer. He was a prolific film actor during the late silent and early sound era. He was arrested by the Nazis when they occupied the Netherlands and was kil ...

.Goble p.483 The film's

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was by

Botho Hoefer Botho Hoefer (1880–1958) was a German art director.Parrill p.231 Selected filmography * '' The Golden Plague'' (1921) * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1922) * '' Louise de Lavallière'' (1922) * '' The Evangelist'' (1924) * '' The Hobgoblin'' (1924) * ' ...

and

Hans Minzloff Hans Minzloff (1890–1962) was a German art director.Gemünden p.171 His life The son of sculptor Viktor Minzloff, he trained as a theater painter and briefly studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische ...

Cast

as Harry Gill *

as May Elliot *

as Gen.Dir. Fredy Sanderson *

Bruno Kastner Richard Otto Bruno Kastner (January 1890Different sources cite 1 January, 3 January, 20 January, and 30 January as Kastner's date of birth. – 30 June 1932) was a German people, German stage and film acting, actor, screenwriter, and film produce ...

as Luigi Vicelli * Rina Maggi as Diane de Lusigny *

Cord Morton Cord or CORD may refer to: Common meanings * String * Thin rope * Twine * Cord (unit) used for measuring wood * Power cord * Umbilical cord Cord or CORD may also refer to: Places * Cord, Arkansas People * Alex Cord (1933–2021), Americ ...

as Ein Artist *

Ida Wüst Ida Wüst (; 10 October 1884 – 4 October 1958) was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA). Life and career Little is known about Ida Wüst's early childhood. She discovere ...

as Die Tante *

Karl Falkenberg Karl Falkenberg (born Karl Franz Josef Falkenberg, 6 April 1887 – died after 1936) was a German-Jewish film actor. Selected filmography * '' Clown Charly'' (1918) * ''Cain'' (1918) * '' Blackmailed'' (1920) * '' The Song of the Puszta'' (1 ...

as Ein Diener

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1928 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Max Obal Films directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein Films based on German novels German black-and-white films Films based on works by Louis de Wohl {{1920s-Germany-silent-film-stub